Esophageal fistulas in mediastinal tuberculous adenopathies in adults
Manigand, G.; Grateau, G.; Dumas, D.; Fritsch, J.; Faux, N.
La Semaine des Hopitaux Organe Fonde Par l'Association d'Enseignement Medical des Hopitaux de Paris 59(23): 1766-1768
1983
ISSN/ISBN: 0037-1777 PMID: 6308805 Document Number: 5270
An adenopathy perforated into the esophagus in a thirty-two-year old woman from black Africa with mediastinal and abdominal tuberculous adenopathies. The fistula was disclosed upon endoscopic examination in the absence of esophageal symptoms. The characteristics of such fistulas are recalled: location in the middle third of the esophagus, inconspicuousness of symptoms, scarcity of complications among which digestive hemorrhage is the most significant, usually favorable course under medical management alone. The latency of fistulas between tuberculous adenopathies and the esophagus warrants routine fiberoptic endoscopy in patients with mediastinal tuberculous adenopathies.
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